Sha Tin Che Kung Temple

This guide to Sha Tin's Che Kung Temple in Hong Kong opens with a plague that swept the valley in the sixteen hundreds, and the villagers who dug through old texts for a name that might save them: Che Kung, a Song Dynasty general said to clear disease wherever he marched. It follows his life defending imperial princes against the Mongol invasion, and how a soldier who never knew his own legend became a Taoist god of protection. Look for the copper wheel beside his effigy as you listen for what devotees do with it.